I am not talking about the masks one would wear on Halloween or Mardi Gras.

The masks I refer to, I guess would be social masks.

Most people wear them.  However, there are as many different reasons for wearing

masks as there are masks.  Some people wear them at work.  Some wear them at school.

Some people wear them in church.  Why? …….

Because they feel vulnerable if others were to know that all they are seeing is a mask?

Because they don't want others to know who they really are?

Because they feel they cannot be free to be who they really are?

Because they, themselves don't know who they are?

Because they fear not being accepted for just BE-ing?

Society, has preset conceptions of what people should do and how they should

represent themselves.  So, many people decided to wear their masks just to fit in.

Be "normal", whatever that is!

I may be wrong on this, but I believe we all learn as children that no two people

are alike.  We all are different.  That is what makes each and everyone of us special!

But still, we wear masks.

I know many people who wear masks.  I understand why they feel they need to do this.

Even here in the USA, with all the supposed "freedoms" many, many people feel they

Need those masks!  Way too many people rely on masks every day of their lives. 

Way too many people are "closeted" due to: ways of life, religion, sexuality and just plain

fear!  We have become a generation(s) where it used to be fun wearing masks for

certain events to feeling that we have to wear them just to live in this world!

About fifteen years ago, I realized that somewhere between being a mother, wife, sister

and daughter, I had lost my SELF.  I could not complete the sentence I am …….

without being one of the aforementioned.  I did not know "WHO" I was.  Yes, I was

all of these but SELF.  This is a typical problem for women, but I see more and more

men falling into this dilemma.  Once I re-discovered my SELF, I vowed never to wear

the masks again!  I was, at first, very afraid to reveal my true SELF to anyone, ever my

family and friends.  However, I soon realized that I had nothing to fear.  Why should I?

I was just BE-ing the most honest any one person could be!  And, I was free!  Free, from

Social sects.  Free from being grouped with others, because some did not understand.

Free from having to be socially or politically correct.  I was free from those masks.

I was FREE TO BE ME!